H. A. Eugene

@autobono

Strange fiction, music, and weird stuff. Stories at HAD, Radon Journal, the September 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere | Filipino-American | He/him linktr.ee/haeugene

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H. A. Eugene@autobono· 18d

My short story "Whole" is out today! www.varnishlit.com/online/whole

Excerpt of “Whole”:

“When Brad was eight or nine, he and some older kids tossed a washing machine into the hole. It banged on the cliff face, then faded away.”

H. A. Eugene@autobono· May 18

My short story "Show of Force" is out now over at @jerseydevilpress.bsky.social! www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9218

The cover of the April 2026 issue 132 of Jersey Devils Press features a woman reclined with a dark, ominous mass swelling out behind her.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Apr 19

Each bubble is networked, so pushing down on one will only push the air into its neighbor. Meaning it won’t pop. They really are trying to take all the joy out of the world...

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Mar 31

Variations on Clarke’s third law, “"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

“The third law has inspired many snowclones and other variations:
Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.[8][9] (Shermer's last law)
Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from malevolence[10] (referring to artificial intelligence)
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice[8] (Grey's law)
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.[11] (Sterling's corollary to Clarke's law) This idea also underlies the setting of the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, in which human stalkers try to navigate the location of an alien "visitation", trying to make sense of technically advanced items discarded by the aliens.
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.[12]
Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.[13]”

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jan 29

Written text: I was at a summer camp for kids and they woke up the kids in the middle of the night to take them to the forest and tell spooky stories, where one of the counselors was hiding and scared them all to run back.
I wanted to go but fell back asleep instead of getting up out of bed. When the kids all got back screaming and running a few of them told me what happened, but they all had wildly different stories of what happened. It was a ghost, an animal, a woman, a demon, a horse..
I learned that even if someone witnessed something firsthand, their brain will make stuff up to fill in the blanks without them even realizing they are "lying"

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Nov 27

Legendary character from Australian mythology, Bluey.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Bluey float, chasing a red balloon.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Nov 19

Our kid shot this picture, which he unintentionally modified by pulling impatiently on the paper while it printed.

Sepia-toned black and white picture of myself with my eyes closed, but with bent vertical lines—printing errors—running down my face.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Nov 3

Check out "Brian is Missing", out today in the November 2025 issue of the @theberlinreview.bsky.social! This quick read is a riff on one of my previous stories, "Rolling", published in X-R-A-Y Lit (December, 2020) 🌊 theberlinliteraryreview.com/h-a-eugene-b... #shortfiction #fiction

The cover for The Berlin Literary Review, November 2025 issue, which features a colorful, painted depiction of a city street corner in daylight.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Nov 1

Some praise for the Business 80 edit of "Run" by Mazmere!

Cover art for “Run” by Mazmere, depicting the ripped-off wings of a bird.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Sep 28

WORMS

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Sep 3

This is the assembly instructions for a Kinder Egg toy that goes along with the game at the other end of this QR code. Can you tell by looking at it what it does? Or how it’s even fun?

Overly complicated assembly instructions for a Kinder Egg toy.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jul 16

Absolutely no foresight in this email subject line.

Screenshot: email subject line for “Ultimate AI & Automation” course is “Automate your life until you’re legally unemployed”

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jun 20

A particularly relevant fortune.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jun 15

I am convinced that if David Lynch had to imagine a songwriter character, he’d end up with Brian Wilson.

Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread"' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it").[31]
The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again".[29]
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32]
Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded "I don't know, it's just the best song ever written."[33]

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jun 6

“DJs love the acoustics in the hottest new club in Germany—a converted WWII bunker!” is a rave horror writing prompt.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· May 9

This is fascinating: through the magic of targeted advertising, I have found QA peanut butter. It is standard reference peanut butter, and needs to be kept at -30 Celsius. It is $2000 a jar. It is forbidden peanut butter.

A product photo of reference peanut butter, packaged more like an industrial chemical than a food item.

General description

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended primarily for use in validating methods for determining proximates, fatty acids, calories, vitamins, elements, amino acids, aflatoxins, and acrylamide in peanut butter and similar matrices. This SRM can also be used for quality assurance when assigning values to in-house reference materials. The SRM is a creamy peanut butter prepared by a manufacturer of peanut butter products. A unit of SRM 2387 consists of three jars of peanut butter containing 170 g each. For more information, please refer to the COA and SDS.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· May 7

@glitchtvbot.bsky.social — 4 years ago, to the day!

H. A. Eugene@autobono· May 1

Man rides a book.

Close up of a subway ad featuring a man riding a book.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Feb 21

A thin layer of snow fell last night. What is this creature? Can you tell by its tracks?

A thin layer of snow fell on steps, plus tiny animal tracks.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jan 16

“Keep your eye on the donut, and not on the hole.”

Black and white picture of director David Lynch.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Jan 14

Wanna see something wild? This is me at 09:42 in a YouTube video about the MTA, "Sercrets of the L train": youtu.be/MEtVJmSSMk0?... I will say my wife has a really good eye.

An L line MTA train has just pulled up to a station, and I get out (left side of screen)

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Dec 27

Every time I watch Charlie Brown and see Lucy Van Pelt's Psychiatry stand (5 cents) I recall how individual psychiatrists in NYC are almost entirely referral only and don't take insurance.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Dec 24

This was my first run this season while it’s actively snowing. I watched my footprints in the process of being erased each time I finished a lap. For better or worse, this was a good use case for smart glasses.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Dec 24

A person walks with a big blue crayon, a la the children’s story Harold and the Purple Crayon.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Dec 10

There’s a story in here somewhere…

Salmon pictured before and after mating, to describe how when they become horny, they “turn into a new, unbelievably fucked up creature”.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Dec 8

When I lived in San Francisco we were so taken by the frequency of parades and street parties that we could only assume each and every person in the city probably had a parade dedicated in them; only it took place in some neighborhood they never went to, and they never would never hear about it.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Nov 24

This cat doesn’t know how to share. And she’s never going to learn.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Oct 31

Sound UP for the most anti-Joy Division presentation of Joy Division, courtesy of the MGM Grand, Las Vegas

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Oct 30

I tried to submit a name for the top score list of the trivia game on Delta flight and the software wouldn’t allow me to enter “buttman”.

H. A. Eugene@autobono· Oct 23

I have a piece in today's 50 Give Or Take email newsletter from Vine Leaves Press! (to read it, click on the pic) FYI you, too, can submit fun, funny, and/or harrowing and unhappy clumps of words to Vine Leaves! vineleavespress.submittable.com/submit/28818... . . . #microfiction